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Beware small business owners: Fox News is not doing you any favors

I’ve been in retail businesses — even restaurants — that allowed Fox News to blast background noise all day long.

This is not a good idea.

Whether or not the owners or customers agree with the right wing viewpoint, no one can dispute the fact that every news network — and particularly

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Why is positive so negative?

This is an awesome video.  Nic Marks, a statistician, gives a positive presentation.

It was just uploaded to YouTube a few hours ago.  I clicked “Like,” along with 41 other people.  Four people gave it a thumbs down.  However, the comments are overwhelmingly negative.  People calling him “an idiot” and “a commie.” 

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Sunday morning. Better than most.

Sunday morning.  Better than most.

For the first time in four and a half years, I don’t have to print 10,000 copies of Coffee News — tonight, and tomorrow, and tomorrow night…

My printing equipment, after 4.3 million copies, has bit the dust.  Rather than buy a new machine or continue calling

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nice article

Elizabeth Cook, editor at The Salisbury Post, wrote her Sunday column about the beginning of the new school year, and the absence of my mother’s traditional back-to-school column.

In the column, she reprints a letter, written by a school principal about his son’s first day of school.

Mom quoted this letter each

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It’s a good time to have babies!

The Republican strategy is simple.  Generate as much fear and cynicism as possible and suppress voter turnout this fall.

As bad as the economy is, the GOP would benefit politically from it getting worse, not better.  If it isn’t actually getting worse, they can at least say it’s getting worse — or

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Sunday Afternoon vlog

Why we like Facebook so much

Facebook is phenomenally popular for many reasons.

But I think the voting system — specifically the “like” button — is key.  It makes the site inherently positive.  That’s the core principle at work.

On Facebook, it’s easy to like things.  It requires a simple click.

There’s no elegant way to dislike

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Life mirrors art

what is art?

Norman Mailer said that “once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever.”

Which is where we are now.  The Clyde Overcash/Anne Caldwell Cave/What is Art? conflict is basically over.  The rest is art.

I just finished reading several articles in today’s Salisbury Post that further

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Cell phone tower in my neighborhood! Okay.

Ever get a phone call and run outside, hoping to get a decent signal before the call drops?

One of our neighbors came ’round with a petition the other day.

There are plans to build a cell phone tower on the Catawba campus, near our house.  The petition was asking the planning

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a mother without words

I did not visit my Mom today.

Most every day I stop in — if only for a few minutes.  Sometimes I stay awhile.

Today, I was busy from the moment my feet hit the floor until late — and never made it.

Her Alzheimer’s has progressed, and her ability to speak

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